http://www.fatuosity.net/2009/07/22/towards-a-fat-aesthetics/ on fat embodiement and sexual subjectivity Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:26:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.fatuosity.net/2009/07/22/towards-a-fat-aesthetics/comment-page-1/#comment-942 LINKAGE: T-Shirts, “The Colour of Beauty,” Fatuosity, American Able « threadbared Fri, 14 May 2010 15:40:58 +0000 http://www.fatuosity.net/?p=6#comment-942 [...] smart observations about the myth of a “natural” body, about fat and sexuality, about a fat aesthetics: A recognition that fat bodies are different to thin bodies (and different to other fat bodies, and [...] [...] smart observations about the myth of a “natural” body, about fat and sexuality, about a fat aesthetics: A recognition that fat bodies are different to thin bodies (and different to other fat bodies, and [...]

]]> http://www.fatuosity.net/2009/07/22/towards-a-fat-aesthetics/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Audrey (aka Auð) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:44:35 +0000 http://www.fatuosity.net/?p=6#comment-9 I am an artist, and you cannot believe how many times it has annoyed me that art models in books are almost always thin (although not painfully so). I have not found a great book that views fat in an aesthetic light - as beautiful as being slender. I love to draw and paint the human body, but what makes drawing exciting is the challenges. What changes a model's shape like fat deposits? They add definition and individualism to us: breasts, hips, thighs, butts, bellies, waists, and backs. Muscles move in quite predictable ways, but fat looks different, and behaves different from muscle - and unfortunately, I have not been able to study that as often as I have wanted. Tell you the truth, I get tired of thin, muscular bodies - they just don't excite me artistically anymore. I am an artist, and you cannot believe how many times it has annoyed me that art models in books are almost always thin (although not painfully so). I have not found a great book that views fat in an aesthetic light – as beautiful as being slender. I love to draw and paint the human body, but what makes drawing exciting is the challenges. What changes a model’s shape like fat deposits? They add definition and individualism to us: breasts, hips, thighs, butts, bellies, waists, and backs. Muscles move in quite predictable ways, but fat looks different, and behaves different from muscle – and unfortunately, I have not been able to study that as often as I have wanted. Tell you the truth, I get tired of thin, muscular bodies – they just don’t excite me artistically anymore.

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